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by msla 9mo ago
Direct link to downloadable paper: https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC12713542/
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by msla 9mo ago
You know, writing code that doesn't leak memory is really not that hard. There. I've debunked Java, Python, PHP, Perl, and Rust. (Or maybe, just maybe, tools should make our lives easier.)
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by msla 9mo ago
Hm. Run this analysis for diabetes drugs and insulin. It's interesting how moralistic the media becomes when fat people lose weight without "earning it" by their lights. Almost like it's some kind of bias.
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by msla 10mo ago
Ah, so we're back to koolefant: https://x42.com/koolefant/ > If you are using Netscape(*) you will probably see the happy cow above. Internet Explorer-users on Windows and Mac, however, will see a dead flat ele
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by msla 10mo ago
Possibly friendlier link: https://old.reddit.com/r/longform/comments/1e8m5s1/the_250_b... (old.reddit.com takes you to the old UI)
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by msla 10mo ago
This would be more convincing if I hadn't lived through BSOD... I mean Windows 95. Hey, they fixed the BSODs eventually. That screen's black now.
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by msla 10mo ago
OK, you can't have your preferred environment because someone else has a different use-case. Moreover, people will condescend to you and insist your setup never worked, nobody ever used it, and nobody cares that it's going away. P
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by msla 10mo ago
Please keep your petty bickering off HN. Complaining about topic-ness is off-topic. Besides, this is very on-topic. Precedent: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6912967 (331 points)
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by msla 10mo ago
> If you want to send the net neutrality to /dev/null, please, head on. What?
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by msla 10mo ago
> While I expect the improvements to slow down and stop, due to the money running out This will certainly happen with the models that use weird proprietary licenses, which people only contribute to if they're being paid, but open on
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by msla 10mo ago
What a useless piece of snark.
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by msla 10mo ago
The data: https://archive.org/details/utah_unix_v4_raw The link: https://archive.org/download/utah_unix_v4_raw You probably want analog.tap
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by msla 10mo ago
So you can't tell the difference between a hypervisor and a bytecode interpreter. OK.
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by msla 10mo ago
> Sixel support unfortunately came to terminals in 01988 Then why do I have it now? Time travel?
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by msla 10mo ago
These days American exceptionalism generally comes from people believing America is exceptionally bad.
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by msla 10mo ago
Of course you can. People sell what they don't have all the time. Your cars are computerized death traps? Advertise their reliability. Your OS sends endless information back home to Apple? Advertise its privacy features. Your AI halluc
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by msla 10mo ago
"We don't care, we don't have to, we're Intel." Plus, DEC managed to move all of its VAX users to Alpha through the simple expedient of no longer making VAXen, so I wonder if HP (which by that point had swallowed wh
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by msla 10mo ago
IA64 was EPIC, which, itself, was a "lessons learned" VLIW design, in that it had things like stop bits to explicitly demarcate dependency boundaries so instructions from multiple words could be combined on future hardware with mo
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by msla 10mo ago
In case someone hasn't heard: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Itanium > In 2019, Intel announced that new orders for Itanium would be accepted until January 30, 2020, and shipments would cease by July 29, 2021.[1
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by msla 10mo ago
Interesting they're using C++ as opposed to Ada.
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by msla 10mo ago
At that point, why not write in C? Do they think it's C/C++ and not understand the difference? > no recursion Does this actually mean no recursion or does it just mean to limit stack use? Because processing a tree, for example,
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by msla 10mo ago
Especially since there is a widely recognized way to ignore a parameter: (void) a; Every C programmer beyond weaning knows that.
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by msla 10mo ago
> The latter 2 usages are pretty much the same. Only if you ignore most of reality, sure.
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by msla 10mo ago
> On Linux or Windows, processes are provided with the illusion of infinite memory. OK, how does this apply to what MS-DOS was doing? Remember that VisiOn is an MS-DOS shell.
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by msla 10mo ago
It's interesting how this article deconstructs the buzzwords used in the marketing material to get from "VisiOn is a multitasking object-oriented OS using a VM to be portable" to "VisiOn is a DOS shell that uses C struct
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by msla 10mo ago
> The food was extremely good. . . . everything was fresh from the garden. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Milk_sickness > Milk sickness, also known as tremetol vomiting, is a kind of poisoning characterized by tre
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by msla 10mo ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Feed_sack_dress > Feed sack dresses, flour sack dresses, or feedsack dresses were a common article of clothing in rural US and Canadian communities from the late 19th century through th
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by msla 10mo ago
FTP server, not BBS. You had to be on the Internet to access it. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simtel It was called SIMTEL20 for a while because it was hosted on a PDP-10 mainframe running the TOPS-20 operating system,
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by msla 10mo ago
Well, it certainly isn't a stable ABI on Windows.
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by msla 11mo ago
The rigorous form of the non-rigorous version is non-standard analysis: There really are tiny little numbers we can manipulate algebraically and we don't need the epsilon-delta machinery to do "real math". It's so comm

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